X800XT Heat question

[charlie22911]

well, been taking my AIW X800XT for a spin (man what an improvment from a 9600). well, ran ATItool and opened the scan for artifact feature with no overclocks to sit back and watch the temp. core temp never went above 71 degrees. mem however was hot, i touched one of the chips and the darn thing burned me. i havnt played with such high end cards before so i didnt know if this was normal or not. is it natrual for these rams to get so hot?

[CPDMF]

Mine were getting pretty warm after I flashed to an XT bios. I went ahead and sinked them and mounted up a fan to help out. They do get hotter than the older cards but I don't remember mine getting to the point where it was uncomfortable, but after 18 years of turning wrenches I don't feel a whole lot in my fingers.

[charlie22911]

my fingers are sensitive to heat BTW.

 

i will have to find a way to sink the chips that are on the same side as the heatsink... that will be a problem:

http://www.3dgameman.com/vr/ati/aiw_x800xt/aiw_x800xt_04.jpg

[red930]

Whereabouts is the chip that is getting hot located on the video card PCB?

[Protagonist.]

You should try ATI Tray Tools. It's similar to ATI tool but I have far less problems with it.

[charlie22911]

@ace,

 

its all of my ram chips that are hot. im not overclocking, everything is stock. as a matter od dact the chips are not running at their rated speeds.

 

@protagonist,

i will give that a try if i ever have a problem with ati tool.

[NEOAethyr]

What's the rated speeds?

 

If it's under 1400mhz I can run mine at that for a few mins and touch them, and then tell you how it feals lol, I dn think they're gonna be hot though.

 

Lemme check as is...

 

1200mhz, cold to the touch, actually cold.

My room is warm and I got the heat cranked up, and these thing are cold ^^.

 

Mine is a diffrent card though, but it should be the exact same memory.

 

All gddr3 is identical, just diff labels.

There might be some now with more then 32megs per chip, but it does'nt seem like it from the looks of a gf7 256m and 512m.

 

They sell up to 1400mhz, but allow for up to 1600mhz.

 

Edit:

As you may allready know, I only have one fan on this thing, and it's attached to the side of my case, there is no fan directly on the card, I can't handle the power draw yet, not even a tiny fan.

 

No heatsinks on the ram.

 

 

Err, I mean gddr3 from samsung are identical, all others, well, don't performe as well that's keep it at that, but it's not a huge deal.

[charlie22911]

all i know about the ram is that it is samsung 1.6ns ram (rated for 1250Mhz i think).

if i run it at its rated speed, you think it will harm anything?

[NEOAethyr]

Nah I think you'll be allright as long as you run at the rated speed for the card, if you can handle better then go for it .

 

Mine was 1.6ns as well, did'nt mean I was able to get that high right away, that's for sure.

 

If you got some new gel on the heatsink you're all set dude .

 

As for teh heat, apperently others have hot memory too, I noticed this in the gf7 trhead right next to this one ^^.

Wierd I guess lol.

 

None the less run what the card has for stock speeds, and if you can do better go for it.

I dn think it'll harm anything.

 

The high gpu temps are normal, if you got those.

Most everyone has around in the 60c's for these newer cads(Edit, yeah you're probably just fine ).

[charlie22911]

ok, took her up to 550625 no problems. ran 3dmark 03 and got 13150. 6221 in 05. havnt ran 01se yet.